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Secret Nazi plans for Australia Day not as secret as some would like

RSL slams Australia Day hijack
Joe Hildebrand

WHITE supremacists are plotting to use Cronulla riot-style tactics to hijack Australia Day celebrations across Sydney including a plan to push their racist views at the sacred Anzac Cenotaph at Hyde Park.

The attempt to co-opt the war memorial to create the impression “Hitler is coming to Sydney” has disgusted veterans, with the RSL calling it an appalling slur on the memory of our Diggers.

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Other rallies will be held near the scene of the Cronulla riot and in Camden to protest the construction of an Islamic school.

The far-Right groups even promote an online handbook on how to combat police and avoid detection and infiltration when holding such meetings.

In an embarrassing display of incompetence, much of the material uncovered by The Daily Telegraph includes warnings about the need to keep such material secret from the media and this newspaper in particular.

The racist material, which condemns migrants for not being able to speak English, is riddled with spelling mistakes and poor grammar.

Much of the activity has been coordinated through the neo-Nazi website Stormfront, whose Australian arm is moderated by 18-year-old Newcastle resident Rhys McLean.

Mr McLean said he was aware of the plans but said it was a matter for the individual organisers, not the web site.

The main organiser is a semi-literate man from southwest Sydney who posts under the name “Aussie Nationalist”.

After taking a poll of preferred locations, including Cronulla, the Central Coast and Bondi because of its large Jewish population the group appeared to settle on one of Sydney ’s most sacred sites.

“The location is Hyde Park, preferably near the Cenotaph which is a place of eternal honour and the epitomy [sic] of the Australian Spirit,” Aussie Nationalist wrote.

RSL president Bill Crews said the plan was disgusting.

“We ’d be appalled by any attempt to use any memorial or the Anzac memo-Hal in Hyde Park to support any prejudiced political group,” he said.

Another organiser promotes using tactics similar to the 2005 Cronulla riot, when en masse text messages were used to swamp the beach with violent thugs intent on bashing anyone of ethnic appearance.

“Organise flyer drops two weeks before the rally in Sydney and its surrounds, and start a Cronulla style SMS campaign five days before the rally,” the poster identified as “Awake at last” wrote.

“Hopefully by the time the rally starts the media will have everyone thinking Adolf Hitler is coming to Sydney.” The threads also encourage users to consult a manual entitled How to Combat the Political Police.

An electronic newsletter distributed by the far-right Australia First Party employs the tactics, promising a rally near Cronulla and in Camden but refusing to disclose the exact location until the morning of January 26.

One meeting will be held in “a club in the Sutherland Shire” and be addressed by convicted race-hate criminal Jim Saleam.

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News brief · 9 January 2008

Racist bottle attack on taxi driver

From the Blacktown Sun:

Racist abuse precedes bottle attack

A 35-YEAR-old taxi driver was bashed at Prospect on New Year’s Day.

A passenger hit him with a beer bottle in Brae Street about 5am and caused his head to bleed.

The driver told police that his assailant and three other passengers, two of whom were women, had made taunting and racist remarks about him before the assault.

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News brief · 9 January 2008

Australia First to stage Australia Day hate rally

From The Daily Telegraph:

Race thugs to hijack Australia Day

Article from: The Daily Telegraph
Exclusive by Joe Hildebrand, Political Reporter

January 09, 2008

A GROUP of white supremacists is planning to hijack Australia Day celebrations in Camden - as part of a protest against a proposed new mosque in the area.

The Daily Telegraph has learnt that the far-right Australia First Party, whose Sydney secretary is convicted race hate criminal Jim Saleam, is organising the rally.

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News brief · 9 January 2008

Fraser’s two faces revealed in 77 cabinet docs

From The Age:

Ministers’ double standard towards apartheid revealed
Ben Doherty
January 1, 2008

AT THE height of Australia’s opposition to South African apartheid in 1977, a whites-only South African fishing team was smuggled through the country on its way to a competition in New Zealand, all with the approval of prime minister Malcolm Fraser, an outspoken apartheid opponent.

At the same time, Australia was giving serious consideration to sending troops into then prime minister Ian Smith’s similarly segregated Rhodesia, as part of a Commonwealth force of peacekeepers.

The cabinet’s double standard on apartheid is revealed in documents that show a government concerned about maintaining its global reputation but willing to break its own rules to accommodate a South African team, even if it meant jeopardising Brisbane’s chance to host the 1982 Commonwealth Games.

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The documents show that on March 10, 1977, cabinet was told the six-man whites-only South African angling team wanted to pass through Australia on its way to compete in the International Ski Boat Angling competition in New Zealand.

At the time, New Zealand was an international outcast because of its support of South African sporting teams, with then prime minister Robert Muldoon controversially insisting that sport and politics should be kept separate.

The advice provided to Australia’s cabinet was that government policy was to refuse transit for racially selected sporting teams.

Allowing the South African team to pass through the country would undermine Australia’s anti-apartheid stance, cabinet was told, potentially jeopardising its spot at the coming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Brisbane’s right to host the Commonwealth Games, and sporting tours with other countries.

With the Immigration Department fearing a furious reaction inside Australia, the advice to ministers was to reject the South African request.

But five days later, cabinet approved the team passing through Australia.

Cabinet wanted its decision kept secret, however, insisting “(South African team) members would not be recorded as having entered or departed from Australia”.

Three months later, at a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Britain, Mr Fraser was a signatory to the Gleneagles Agreement condemning apartheid and vowing to maintain sanctions, sporting and economic, against the South African regime.

In contrast to the government’s decision to acquiesce to South Africa’s request, a cabinet submission from 1977 said the Australian government would be prepared to send troops to Rhodesia, now called Zimbabwe.

Cabinet documents dated May 5 read: “Australia will also be prepared to examine with sympathy how we might usefully contribute if it were decided to place a Commonwealth force in Rhodesia.”

After repeated denials from prime minister Fraser and others in his government, Australia would ultimately send 152 troops to help the country’s transition to majority rule in 1979.

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News brief · 1 January 2008

Secret Nazi plans for Australia Day not as secret as some would like

Racist bottle attack on taxi driver

Australia First to stage Australia Day hate rally

Fraser’s two faces revealed in 77 cabinet docs

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